Second Language Teachers’ Education: the Case of the Italian CPIA

This paper focuses on Percorsi di Alfabetizzazione e Apprendimento della Lingua Italiana ( ( a Percorsi AALI).Percorsi AALI are the I Italian language courses for foreigners organised by CPIAs, which are the formal Italian schools for adults. The paper describes and compares the profiles of Percorsi AALI teaching staff I f f Percorsi AALI teaching staff mainly consists of primary school teachers, but there are also some secondary school teachers and a small number of A23 teachers, who are the only ones to have a specialisation in teaching Italian as a second or foreign language. Since teachers’ education and professionalism have a considerable effect on the appropriateness of teaching methods and learning outcomes, focusing on these points is of great interest.